Author

Houghton, Maisie

Maisie Houghton was born in New York City, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fifties and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962. With her husband, she lived in Corning, New York, for over fifty years. Now settled in Back Bay, Boston, she lives in an apartment with views of Fenway Park and the Charles River.

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Author's books

Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice

$24.95

TOUCHING AND INCISIVE, Pitch Uncertain is a beautifully drawn account of Maisie Houghton’s struggle to find her own voice as the middle child of two parents whose marriage and lives she slowly decoded as she came of age in the 1950s. Growing up in the gentle ambience of Cambridge, Massachusetts, spending full summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, and regularly visiting her relatives in the socially polished reaches of greater New York, Maisie and her two sisters had the makings of an ideal childhood. But their parents were an enigma.